Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
My childhood was extreme.
Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.
It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.
Get off the cross, we need the wood.